Star Trek: Starfleet Academy government producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau tease an upcoming episode’s tribute to Star Trek: Deep Area 9. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premieres with two episodes on Thursday, January 15, on Paramount+.
Set within the late thirty second century, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has the advantage of drawing from the total breadth of Star Trek‘s canon, which spans a thousand years. Starfleet Academy’s cadets can probably study from and be impressed by Starfleet’s best heroes, together with Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks).
At Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s press junket, TrekMovie‘s Laurie Ulster requested Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau how they stability the objective of attracting new viewers whereas retaining longtime Star Trek followers.
Landau and Kurtzman spoke about Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s quite a few Easter eggs to Star Trek canon, and mentioned (with out spoilers) how Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5 is “basically a love letter” to Star Trek: Deep Area 9. Learn their quotes under:
Noga Landau: I feel for us, it begins in our writers room. There’s lots of people who’ve beloved Trek their entire lives. After which there’s individuals who actually have come to Trek solely not too long ago. They usually’re very priceless views to guarantee that every part is making sense to them, and every part’s making sense to the Trekkies. And all of it balances out.
However I feel, within the present itself, there’s so many Easter eggs to Trek. One of many ones that actually stands out to the followers is Harry Kim being an admiral on the Wall of Heroes. Our atrium is called Sato Atrium. We have now Uhura Pavilion. We have now so many honors to the individuals who got here earlier than us. And episode 5 is basically a love letter to Deep Area 9.
TrekMovie: It’s so good.
Noga Landau: It’s so good.
Alex Kurtzman: Nicely, that’s the purpose, proper? The thought is that for those who don’t know Deep Area 9 and also you’ve by no means seen it, it’s an exquisite introduction. If you happen to do know Deep Area 9, it’s actually significant. And that was the objective. Sure, after all, if we don’t make reveals for a brand new technology, after which the brand new technology after that, Trek goes to die, proper? Our objective is to maintain it alive. So, as a lot as individuals might complain that it doesn’t really feel like outdated Trek: If you would like outdated Trek, watch it. It’s there for you perpetually. However we’re doing a lot to honor canon and to honor outdated Trek in the best way we’re approaching it now.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy‘s first trailer, launched at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025, included a shot of cadet SAM (Kerrice Brooks) approaching a display screen with a photograph of Captain Sisko, and a caption that mentioned, “The Destiny of Benjamin Sisko, Emissary of the Prophets” that left followers’ tongues wagging.
Basically, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy promised to deal with the “thriller” of what actually occurred when Captain Sisko disappeared on the finish of Star Trek: Deep Area 9. Followers know that Sisko was a demi-god and have become one with the Prophets of Bajor, however Ben’s destiny has been an open query for Starfleet since 2375.
One of many Star Trek: Starfleet Academy writers “who’ve beloved Trek their entire lives” that Noga Landau described is Tawny Newsome, who’s a co-producer of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. An avowed Star Trek: Deep Area 9 fan, it is no coincidence that Newsome co-wrote Star Trek: Starfleet Academy episode 5 with Kirsten Beyer.
No matter it finally entails, Tawny Newsome indulging her love for Captain Sisko in episode 5’s love letter to Star Trek: Deep Area 9 is poised to be a really particular hour of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy that DS9 followers may very well be speaking about for years to return.